McCain, Pinochet, and torture

Digby relays complaints by anti-torture blog After Downing Street, that the liberal blogosphere is giving McCain a pass on torture. (As Digby points out, its more properly the traditional media that has given the pass. The bloggers have been all over it.)

HoffPost has discovered that McCain met with Pinochet. PINOCHET.

from Abu Ghraib to the Sopranos to Va Tech

Ron Rosenbaum in Slate talking about a new documentary on Abu Ghriab that is being filmed. He also uses it as an occasion to muse on media violence and the connections between the three subjects in the title. Talks about the anesthetization of violence and its consequences.

Also references another Slate article from the time of the Military Commissions Act about how disgraceful it all is, the role the photos played in numbing Americans to torture. Article has great links on almost all aspects of the scandal.